Biden's Bankrupt Iran Policy

The U.S. doesn’t have a specific goal for its Iran policy beyond inflicting pain and causing destruction through sanctions.

Nahal Toosi rightly doesn’t think much of Biden’s Iran policy:

When I asked the U.S. official what President Joe Biden’s Iran strategy is, I was immediately met with laughter. Then, the official said, “You know, a lot of people inside the administration ask that same question. Sometimes they ask it on the first day. Sometimes they ask it six months later.”

I have an answer for them: There is no Biden strategy for Iran.

Biden’s major policies in the Middle East have been defined above all by the president’s desire to reinforce the old status quo in which the U.S. boxes in Iran and arms regional clients to the teeth. If there doesn’t appear to be a coherent strategy for Iran under Biden, that’s because the U.S. hasn’t had one for decades. The U.S. doesn’t have a specific goal for its Iran policy beyond inflicting pain and causing destruction through sanctions.